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Question

Lets say this is our sprite

(please ignore the black forms) Is there a way to repeat the gray -on the left- tiled image so it looks like a repeated background?

Answer 1

Nope, as far as I know, this is not possible, not even in CSS3.

You will need to separate the images.

There is the background-clip property but that controls the clipping of the background image in relation to its container, which is something else.